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By Michael Reeve

COMPOST COLLECTION

City of Kamloops committee supports organics expansion plan to include apartments, condos

Sep 18, 2025 | 4:17 PM

KAMLOOPS — Kamloops’ Livability and Sustainability Select Committee has backed a plan to expand residential organic collection across the city.

Currently, the city collects organics from single-family residential properties. The plan is to now add multi-family properties, such as apartments or condos, into the program.

Through the residential program, the city has seen a 40 per cent reduction in garbage collected, with compost being diverted to the organics stream.

The planned expansion will be conducted in three phases.

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“Phase one… would be a feasibility study,” outlined Civic Operations Business Manager Glen Farrow to the committee’s meeting Thursday (Sept. 18). “Looking at what is out there in the community, understanding the technical aspects… Where would a cart or a bin be established? What are the different collection models that could exist? Reaching out to those multi-family residences through stakeholder engagement, understanding who the owners of the property, property managers are. And then understanding what that level of support would be, through surveys and such — similar to what we did, historically, with the single-family dwelling [program].”

The goal is to launch the pilot project in the spring of 2026, with council making a final decision on possible expansion across the city in 2027 and final rollout the following spring in 2028.

The recommendation will still need to receive support from the entire council.

“We talk about greater density so that is definitely going to be a challenge,” said Farrow. “One of the questions that we haven’t addressed and are going to be working through, still, is if this will be separate trucks that collect multi-family product versus single-family products. Through the pilot, that is likely how that could get framed up. But (we have) lots of different factors and things to work out in the coming months.”